MAC OS X86 on DELL D800

Posted 28 September 2006 - 03:09 AM

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Way to revive a 6-month-old topic.

I have a Broadcom 57xx with those exact same manufacturer/device IDs. And it works. Unfortunately I'm not on the computer that has my Mac installation on it, so I can't post the kext ATM. I'll try and get around to it tomorrow. Maybe.

Posted 21 October 2006 - 04:02 PM

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I have a Dell 8400 w/a Broadcom adapter. It is a 14e4,1677. I've done up to step 11 in UAL808's post. then followed the instructions here - but no matter what I try, I get a "ifconfig: interface en0 does not exist".

Posted 13 December 2006 - 05:40 PM

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Hello!
I'm new in this forum and I'm not so expert with macs...
I was succesful enabling broadcom 57xx on my tablet c302, but not on my aspire 1694. I followed the steps at the beginning of this thread, then I've tryed changing vendor and dev. id (for me 14e4 - 169c) but without result.
Network in preferences show me only d-link g-122 wireless adaptor... (working at the moment).
I read that after changing dev id I've to do something else like rebuild kextcache or something like that...
Could anyone help me?
Thanks. (This forum is very helpful!!!

Posted 29 December 2006 - 01:11 AM

i have found a Solution that works for my Dell D800 Broadcom Card (Model 570x, Gigabit Integrated Controller, Vendor 14E4,Device 165D)My System is an patched MacOS 10.4.5.

What have I done:

1. I Found a patched Driver somewhere here in the Board (Sorry, I have read so many threads, that I have forgotten the Name of the real publisher)2. This Driver ist attended to this Post. I hope the patcher will allow this3. Copy this Driver File to the Mac Desktop4. Open Finder and navigate to System/Library/Extensions5. Find the IONetworkingFamily.kext and copy it also to your Desktop6. Mark it with the right Mousebutton and select "Show Package Content" or so. -- Sorry I'm using a German Language OSX and so i don't know the real English Button Names. I think you will be able to find the correct ones ;-) --7. Move in the opend KEXT to Contents and then to PlugIns8. Find AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext and copy it to Desktop-- The Copy to Desktop Actions are neccesary, otherwhile you could not edit the KEXT Files --9. Mark the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext with right Mouseclick and choose "Show Package Content" or so, like above10. Navigate to Contents - MacOS11. There You will find a File called AppleBCM5701Ethernet12. Overwrite/ Replace this File with the patched one from your Desktop13. During all these Steps it is possible that you have to Identify with your Root Passwort. Do so and you are able to replace the Files14. At this time you have placed the modified Driver in the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext ON YOUR DESKTOP15. Now its time to complete the IONetworkingFamily.kext on YOUR DESKTOP16. Therefore mark the in Step 5 copied File on Desktop with right MB and select "Show Package Content" or so17. In the opend Package navigate to Contents-PlugIns18. Copy your modified AppleBCM5701Ethernet (Step 14) from Desktop to this package. Replace the old One19. After closing you got a modified IONetworkingFamily.kext on the Desktop20. Now you have to copy this File to your System/Library/Extension Folder.21. Navigate there with Finder and replace the existing one with the modified one from Desktop22. The KEXT is now replaced an you have to do some jobs in the Terminal23. Open Terminal and execute the following Commands:sudo -scd /cd /System/Library/Extensions/ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcacherm /System/Library/Extensions.mkextchown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensionskextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions24. Now you have to do a Reboot.25. The Network should now work26. At my System an other Error occured.After the second Reboot OSX showed that the patched File was not correct loaded. The Network was again greyed out :-(((27. To handle this problem, open the DiskManagement Tool form MAC OSX.38. Choosee your Systempartition and select the Opinion to repair the Acces Rights on this Volume.39. After the next reboot the System worked fine and the Network Card was working

I hope this Workarround works also for your System. My special thanks goes to the real Patcher of the Driver. Sorry that I have forgotten his Name. Without his patching my Network would never come to live....

Human

humanmx,I have gotten as far as the terminal and entered sudu -s. then it asks for my password, then puts me at *****-computer:~root#. now when i try the cd/ or the cd/System/Library/Extensions/ i get No such file or directory. What am i doing wrong? HELP! !

Posted 09 January 2007 - 05:29 AM

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humanmx,I have gotten as far as the terminal and entered sudu -s. then it asks for my password, then puts me at *****-computer:~root#. now when i try the cd/ or the cd/System/Library/Extensions/ i get No such file or directory. What am i doing wrong? HELP! !

Posted 28 January 2007 - 03:37 PM

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Hi guys i ge it all i get until the error but i dont understand where to go to get to recet the Acces (I assume he ment Access? but i still don know what to do) PLEASE HELP [email me at super.hyper.boy@gmail.com if possible plz]

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Posted 05 April 2007 - 12:29 PM

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I have a Dell 8400 w/a Broadcom adapter. It is a 14e4,1677. I've done up to step 11 in UAL808's post. then followed the instructions here - but no matter what I try, I get a "ifconfig: interface en0 does not exist".

Any ideas???

Check your version of OS X. I was having the same problem but I had 10.4.1 installed and these instructions are for 10.4.3 or newer versions.

As far as I can tell it is smoking fast, and runs stable. I have running MSN Messenger as well, and I am going to attempt a couple of additional software installation tonight.

MarineCorps97

I have a Latitude D800 with 1.7 GHz Pentium M, 1 GB Ram, an Nvidia Geforce4 4200 GO which does not work. The sound, network, and wireless all work. My main concern is the graphics card, if anyone had instructions on how to enable resolution selection and QE on the Geforce4 4200 GO it would be greatly appreciated.

Posted 23 May 2007 - 07:00 PM

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I followed the instructions, and the kext seems to load. My problem is that darwin spits out a good bit of information while os x is loading like: Device is unkown, get adapter info failed, disable () called when not gated, etc. Does anybody have any ideas? This is the only piece of hardware that is not working on my laptop.

As far as I can tell it is smoking fast, and runs stable. I have running MSN Messenger as well, and I am going to attempt a couple of additional software installation tonight.

MarineCorps97

My laptop is Dell D810 with the same CPU as yours. However, the system cannot recongnize the CPU, so it runs at a speed of 800MHz. Did you meet the same problem with me? btw, where did you find the driver for Ethernet?Thanks a lot

Posted 24 May 2007 - 06:54 PM

i have found a Solution that works for my Dell D800 Broadcom Card (Model 570x, Gigabit Integrated Controller, Vendor 14E4,Device 165D)My System is an patched MacOS 10.4.5.

What have I done:

1. I Found a patched Driver somewhere here in the Board (Sorry, I have read so many threads, that I have forgotten the Name of the real publisher)2. This Driver ist attended to this Post. I hope the patcher will allow this3. Copy this Driver File to the Mac Desktop4. Open Finder and navigate to System/Library/Extensions5. Find the IONetworkingFamily.kext and copy it also to your Desktop6. Mark it with the right Mousebutton and select "Show Package Content" or so. -- Sorry I'm using a German Language OSX and so i don't know the real English Button Names. I think you will be able to find the correct ones ;-) --7. Move in the opend KEXT to Contents and then to PlugIns8. Find AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext and copy it to Desktop-- The Copy to Desktop Actions are neccesary, otherwhile you could not edit the KEXT Files --9. Mark the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext with right Mouseclick and choose "Show Package Content" or so, like above10. Navigate to Contents - MacOS11. There You will find a File called AppleBCM5701Ethernet12. Overwrite/ Replace this File with the patched one from your Desktop13. During all these Steps it is possible that you have to Identify with your Root Passwort. Do so and you are able to replace the Files14. At this time you have placed the modified Driver in the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext ON YOUR DESKTOP15. Now its time to complete the IONetworkingFamily.kext on YOUR DESKTOP16. Therefore mark the in Step 5 copied File on Desktop with right MB and select "Show Package Content" or so17. In the opend Package navigate to Contents-PlugIns18. Copy your modified AppleBCM5701Ethernet (Step 14) from Desktop to this package. Replace the old One19. After closing you got a modified IONetworkingFamily.kext on the Desktop20. Now you have to copy this File to your System/Library/Extension Folder.21. Navigate there with Finder and replace the existing one with the modified one from Desktop22. The KEXT is now replaced an you have to do some jobs in the Terminal23. Open Terminal and execute the following Commands:sudo -scd /cd /System/Library/Extensions/ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcacherm /System/Library/Extensions.mkextchown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensionskextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions24. Now you have to do a Reboot.25. The Network should now work26. At my System an other Error occured.After the second Reboot OSX showed that the patched File was not correct loaded. The Network was again greyed out :-(((27. To handle this problem, open the DiskManagement Tool form MAC OSX.38. Choosee your Systempartition and select the Opinion to repair the Acces Rights on this Volume.39. After the next reboot the System worked fine and the Network Card was working

I hope this Workarround works also for your System. My special thanks goes to the real Patcher of the Driver. Sorry that I have forgotten his Name. Without his patching my Network would never come to live....

Human

Hello,

the "kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions" terminal command gives me an error. It displays that the com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext bundle is not findable. However every command before that one worked just fine.